Selfie is now a much used form of
photography. In general, photography means observer captures the observed.
In selfie, the observer becomes the observed.
Over thousands of years,
seers of all faith are trying to make us understand that very fact “observer is
the observed”!
The advent of selfie has made it obvious.
So each selfie photographer
is a seer!
Craziness of taking selfies
has become ubiquitous and even prime ministers, presidents and religious heads
have succumbed to this phenomenon!
Now the real question is
have we seen the true selfie yet?
Here is a simple activity to
find out. Ask your friend to click your photograph while you are in the act of
taking your selfie.
Now compare both the images.
Which one captures the more information? Obviously the photo clicked by the friend.
Why is it so?
The separation between the
observer and the observed!
Observer and the observed
are connected by the stream of thoughts. Allow some space and you look at a
very different picture. The advent of selfie stick is the awareness of this
fact. The selfie stick provides the extra space between the observer and the
observed and the captured image packs a lot of information than the one taken
with extending hand!
So what is true selfie?
To know that the observer,
the observed and the instrument that captures them are the extensions of each
other!
Knowledge of self lies in the
cessation of thoughts!
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(Photo courtesy - Nitin Sarode)
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